Section 92: Prohibition of destroying document

1) No person who is under a legal duty to produce any document or electronic record as evidence in a judicial or other legal proceeding shall knowingly destroy, obliterate, render illegible such document or record, or otherwise make it incapable of being used as evidence.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees.

3) No person shall, in contravention of law, knowingly destroy, obliterate, render illegible any document or electronic record produced in any judicial or other legal proceeding or otherwise making such document or record incapable of being used as evidence or cause it to disappear illegally or give it to another person in an unauthorized manner.

4) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years and a fine not exceeding forty thousand rupees.

5) If a public servant commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or (3), he or she shall be liable to double the sentence referred to in that sub-section.